A sum of 50 films from around a universe will have their India premiere during a 20th book of a International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) that starts here on Dec 4, a event’s organisers pronounced on Monday.

Nearly 180 films, including many award-winners and Oscar nominees, will be screened during 13 venues opposite a city.

Cinematographer-director Shaji N. Karun, a authority of IFFK 2015’s advisory committee, said: “The choice is a solution of a many critical films of a year. No meant attainment deliberation we are a final film festival on a calendar and a bill is lilliputian many times over by other festivals.”

The IFFK has turn a ‘must attend’ eventuality for cinema enthusiasts, “because it advantages from a mature, lettered film audience”, pronounced Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, referring to lay viewers who reserve adult in several thousands to squeeze a seat.

“The peculiarity of any film festival is dynamic by a peculiarity of a audience. If a assembly is meddlesome and cultivated, we can design that some-more serious, improved films will be watched, will be received,” he said.

This year, supplies have been done to accommodate 12,000 representatives — besides unfamiliar attendees, jury and a media. The eight-day spectacular has a bill of about Rs.5 crore.

People like South Korean executive Kim ki-Duk, and Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta have attended a festival in a past.

Mehta’s Oscar-nominated 2005 film “Water” had a Indian premiere as a initial film during a 10th IFFK. In 2012, her “Midnight’s Children” premiered during a 17th IFFK.

“The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is good in many ways, though it has an alien audience,” Zanussi said.

“I don’t count many locals among a assembly in Goa (and) there is customarily a wall between we and a public.

“At IFFK, immature people proceed me and infer in a conversations we have with them that they have seen my films. That they care. That it’s not only for a design or an autograph. This we can respect,” he said.

This year, there will be an annual retrospective on French-Romany executive Tony Gatlif.

Dariush Mehrjui, who was partial of a Iranian new call transformation of a 1970s, will accept a Lifetime Achievement Award this year.

The foe territory is limited to films from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The best underline film will win a Suvarna Chakoram with a money esteem of Rs.15 lakh, while a best executive will accept a Rajata Chakoram and a money esteem of Rs.4 lakh.